Charlie Gregory Catalog

Sailing With Hunters

Synopsis of Sailing with Hunters

A true sea story told first hand by a wireless operator sailing to the Arctic Circle with the Hull fishing fleet. Dedicated to two fellow wireless operators, colleagues of the author who were lost at sea with their ships, this fascinating tale takes you, the reader, back into the 1950's and lets you experience, first hand, what it was like to be a fisherman in those days.

You will find yourself absorbed into the life and times, wit, courage and stoicism of the many characters who sailed in the old fashioned coal-burners.

Maybe, most important of all is the postscript, where the present day descendants of the people in the story contact the author by e-mail to tell him of the affect the events he relates had on their lives. This, as the author says, "Completes the picture and makes it into a poignant whole."

The Under Manager

Synopsis of The Under Manager

Set in the north of Scotland, the story unfolds against a background of Scottish Nationalism and anti-English hatred.

Danny Toxteth can take care of himself, but this is different. These people have fed him a Mickey Finn and this girl, Freya, has seduced him. They have taken compromising photographs and now they are blackmailing him into using the radio station, where he works as the under manager, to home two ships onto each other during a forthcoming smuggling operation.

They know about his affair with Shona and are going to “tell all” to Terry Ann, Danny’s fiancé, and Faroe, Shona’s husband. Terry Ann, an innocent kid from the American Mid West, will surely finish with him. And Faroe, a drunken hard-man, will throw Shona over the cliff. It really is, “A hell of a mess.”

To make matters worse, Alexander, Danny’s friend, has persuaded him to help in ransacking the wreck in the cove. Now Alexander has produced a bottle of whisky. This is is not ordinary whisky. This is The Waters of MacDuibh, booty from a recent hijacking in which a guard was killed.

The Devil's Register

Synopsis of The Devil’s Register.

“Who would poke a stick in the Balkans and risk starting World War III?” Victor Strong asked his reflection in the mirror.

“I would!” he told it. Captain Chris Goodman, a Ship Inspector working for the British Government, is determined to find out what lies behind the undercover operations of a Balkan Flag of Convenience whose ships use a berth in a remote scrap-yard in West Wales. When Goodman is reported to have fallen overboard and been swept away by the tide while inspecting a ship, his daughter, Faith, suspects foul play and enlists the help of Captain Victor Strong, her ex-fiancé.

Working together, Victor and Faith find themselves confronting a web of impenetrable evil, compounded by the blind eyes, fear and self-interest of government officials.

At the same time, Hasan Acar decides to abandon his final exams at Cardiff University and go in search of Meryem, his young sister, who has gone missing in the vastness of Turkey. He is her only family. Their parents are dead.Again, at about the same time… Trapped in Happy House, Pretty Flower, a child prostitute in Hong Kong, hates being a commodity, forced to take mauling after mauling to keep Mamma-san Wong’s fat arse on a stool and Van Slaag in perfume and gold. She will flee this place, where each body-shattering day is a replica of the one before. So, when Bin Satyr offers her a British Passport and a free trip to “England” to meet a rich husband, she jumps at the chance. But Yee Sin, the pimp, knows that Satyr could say that he is anyone from anywhere, for the foreigner is a dealer in passports, as well as goods and people of all kinds. Pretty Flower soon finds that Happy House was indeed happy compared with what she has let herself in for. Link to The Devil’s Register on Kindle, where there is a Look Inside facility: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00B4BQ93Q